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Happy Birthday
Today I will eat chocolate cake (with boiled icing). Today would have been your 60th birthday. 60. You would have been only 60. It was too soon. Far too soon. It’s hard to believe 10 years ago today you were living your dream and celebrating your 50th birthday in Maui. Now we are celebrating it without you. As you know, chocolate cake is not my favourite but Elijah and I baked it and we will eat it today and love it and remember. I love you. Happy Birthday, Mom!
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My Mom
My world stopped when I got the call from my broken-hearted brother that I should get home as soon as I possibly could. It was the call I was dreading for days, but somehow suspected was coming. I got a flight that night (thanks to the most amazing WestJet employee who, after 1.5 hours, managed to find me a way out of Calgary) and got to my Mom’s side as quick as I could. I held her hand. I introduced her to Oliver and he held her fingers. And I talked, or rather mumbled and blubbered, and sat in silence with my brothers waiting on a miracle that never came.…